13 YouTube Tricks for True PowerYOUsers

The YouTubiverse is a strange place ruled by cats and inhabited by millions of soon-to-be celebrities who excel at #Fail-ing, eating copious amounts of condiments, and twerking. Sometimes all at the same time.

While it's not the only user-generated video site on the Web, YouTube is the user-generated video site on the Web. According to Alexa.com, YouTube is the world's third most-popular website (just behind Facebook and Google). The site claims that 100 hours of video are uploaded to its servers every minute, over 6 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube each month, and the company reaches more than 1 billion unique visitors each month.

Let's take a moment to consider that last number: Each "unique user" is probably representative of a unique connected device, many of which may be operated by a single person. So, even if the number were halved, that would constitute 1 out of every 14 humans on the planet visits YouTube at least once a month. And that's nothing to (panda) sneeze at.

So, let us give credit where credit is due: for all the massive amounts of traffic the site generates, it runs really, really well. While we all suffer through #FirstWorldProblems from time to time when our HD clips don't load instantaneously, you can almost always find and view exactly what you want. And that's pretty cool.

The engineers making things run at the Google subsidiary have their game locked down. But even within its vast, well-oiled ecosystem, there are features you've never even used. Here are 13 little-known tricks and features that even you, o' veteran of the Internet, may have never even heard about.

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